La montagne sacrée

Original title: La montaña sagrada

1973
16
1h 54m

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7.7/10

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Adventure Drama Fantasy

In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

50K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,334

227

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

The Alchemist
(as Alexandro Jodorowsky)

Horacio Salinas

The Thief

Zamira Saunders

The Written Woman
(as Ramona Saunders)

Juan Ferrara

Adriana Page

Isla

Burt Kleiner

Klen

Valerie Jodorowsky

Nicky Nichols

Berg

Richard Rutowski

Axon
(as Richard Rutowsky)

Luis Lomelí

Ana De Sade

The Prostitute

Chucho-Chucho

The Chimpanzee

Letícia Robles

Bald Woman 1
(as Leticia Robles)

Connie De La Mora

Bald Woman 2

David Kapralik

Tourist

Jacqueline Voltaire

Tourist Wife

Pablo Leder

Circus Barker

Bobby Cameron

Fon's Working Girl

Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Trivia
Before filming began, director Alejandro Jodorowsky spent a week without sleep under a Zen Master's direction and lived communally with the film's cast for a month.

Goofs
The thief is tied to the Cross with the children stoning him. The "stones" bounce like rubber.

Quotes
The Alchemist: [final lines] We began in a fairytale and we came to life, but is this life reality? No. It is a film. Zoom back camera.
[camera zooms out, revealing equipment and crew]
The Alchemist: We are images, dreams, photographs. We must not stay here. Prisoners! We shall break the illusion. This is Maya! Goodbye to the Holy Mountain. Real life awaits us.

Connections
Featured in Come and Judge (1975)

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Astonishingly beautiful, bloody and strange

Astonishingly beautiful, bloody and strange surrealist film. Roughly, about a spiritual quest for enlightenment, truth and immortality; but that doesn't begin to describe Jodorowsky's Fellini-like flood of imagery and symbolism. Jodorowsky himself plays "The Master", an occult adept who assembles a group of people representing the planets of our solar system (a Christ figure for Earth) to ascend the Holy Mountain and gain the secret of eternal life. The qualities of the individual planetary cultures are both based on, and distorted from, their classic meanings in astrology and alchemy - you really need to have some basic reading in occultism to follow this movie - and the stunning ending shot takes the theme of illusion vs. truth to a completely different plane.